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1  Where he had formerly beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
2  Pushed on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers in Europe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
3  The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
4  Well, the monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is a stranger.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
5  The tradition of carriage-loads of maskers runs back to the most ancient days of the monarchy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
6  Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in that case it skimmed the streets.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
7  Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
8  It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
9  The majority of them, when talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between monarchy and revolution; no one hated him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
10  He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
11  Fierce Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the monarchy in Europe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
12  during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
13  , that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
14  They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
15  Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817